August i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



347 



The Obituary Record. 



EDGAR S. HYA'IT, widely known in the rubber trade, died 

 suddenly on the evening of July 11, at the Auditorium 

 Annex Hotel, in Chicago, which city he was visiting on 

 business. Funeral services were held on July 15, at Plaintield, 

 New Jersey, where Mr. Hyatt had resided for some years. 



Mr. Hyatt was a native of New York city, and was in his 

 fifty-eighth year. His father, the late Lewis Legrand Hyatt, 

 sustained an important relation to the india-rubber industry for 

 an unusually long period. In 1845, at the age of 23, he joined 

 the Ford Rubber Co., then just beginning the manufacture of 

 rubber footwear, at New Brunswick, New Jersey. The prin- 

 cipals were John R. Ford and Christopher Meyer, with whom 

 Mr. Hyatt remained associated for many years. He left them 

 in 185s to go to France with the founders of what has become 

 the important rubber factory of the Hutchinsons, at Montargis. 



Edo.\r S. Ky.\tt. 



A little later he was again associated with Messrs. Ford and 

 Meyer in the North British Rubber Co., Limited, remaining 

 at Edinburgh for ten years. Mr. Hyatt in 1870 organized the 

 Hyatt Rubber Co., later the New Jersey Rubber Co., at New 

 Brunswick, where again he was interested with Ford and Meyer. 

 The plant burning down, Mr. Hyatt again went to Europe, en- 

 gaging finally in the celluloid industry in London, where he died 

 August I, 1903, in his eightj-- fourth year. Lewis L. Hyatt was 

 survived by a widow, after 59 years of married life. The Indi.\ 

 Rubber World happens to be publishing in this issue a sketch of 

 Christopher Meyer, which contains further information on the 

 history of the rubber industry in the period referred to. 



Edgar S. Hyatt, the subject of this sketch, was about nine 

 years of age when he went to Europe with his parents, and lived 

 first in Paris. He went thence to Edinburgh, and was for some 

 time a student in the University of Edinburgh. He next turned 

 his attention to the rubber industry, for which he received his 

 first training in the works of the North British Rubber Co., 

 Limited. Mr. Hyatt returned with his father to America, and 

 filled the position of superintendent in the factory of the Hyatt 

 Rubber Co. (later the New Jersey Rubber Co.), mentioned in 

 the preceding paragraph, and afterward they went to Europe to- 

 gether. Edgar Hyatt returned to America in 1897, since which 

 time he has made his home in Plainfield, N. J. For several 



years he has been connected with George A. Alden & Co. (Bos- 

 ton), visiting in their interest leading rubber manufacturers 

 throughout the country, introducing their goods, including lat- 

 terly guayule rubber. 



Mr. Hyatt was universally liked, for his strict integrity and 

 loyalty and for his sunny, amicable nature. He is survived by 

 a widow and two daughters. Messrs. George A. Alden & Co. 

 issue this notice: 



"It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Mr. 

 Edgar S. Hyatt In making this sad announcement we desire 

 to pay our last homage to a friend and faithful associate, and 

 to express our appreciation of his untiring zeal and devotion to 

 our interests." 



Tribute of The New England Rubber Club. 



The following resolutions were adopted by the New England 



Rubber Club on July 17, at Boston: 



The sad news of the sudden death of our 

 friend and fellow member, Edgar S. Hyatt, 

 c.^ime as a great shock to the members of^ tie 

 Niw England Rubber Club. 



The son of one of the honored pioneers of 

 the rubber trade, and himself connected with 

 it for many years, both in this country and 

 abroad, his loss will be most keenly felt; a 

 man of wide acquaintance, sturdy, energetic, 

 loyal, friendly, the whole trade will miss him. 

 Resolved, That this Club extend to his 

 family its sincere .ind heartfelt sympathy. 



Hcsoh'cd, That these resolutions be spread 

 upon the records of the Club and a copy en- 

 giossed and sent to his family. 



GEORGE P. WHITMORE, 

 E. E. WADBROOK, 

 ALE.\.\NDER M. PAUL, 

 Committee on Resolutions. 



Mr. Hyatt was a member of the 



Plainfield County Club, and Grace 



Episcopal Church, of Plainfield. 



GEORGE C. SMITH. 



George C. Smith, general superin- 

 tendent of the works of the New 

 York Rubber Co., died in Roosevelt 

 Hospital, New York, on the evening 

 of July 19, following an operation, at 

 the age of 68 years. Mr. Smith be- 

 came employed at the rubber works, 

 located at Matteawan, N. Y., about 46 years ago, since 

 which time his connection with them has been un- 

 broken save for a few months during the Civil War, 

 wlicn he was in the service of the Government. 

 When the late Thomas S. Judson died, in the latter part 

 of 1902, leaving vacant the position of general superintendent of 

 the New York Rubber Co., Mr. Smith, then superintendent of one 

 of the important departments, was promoted to succeed hiin. 

 Mr. Smith's home was at Fishkill Landing, N. Y. He took an 

 active part in local politics, as a Republican, and was a member 

 of the Masonic fraternity. He is survived by a widow and a 

 brother. The factory was closed on July 22, the day of the 

 funeral, and the office in the city during the afternoon. 

 • • • 

 Mrs. Emma Converse Chick, of Boston, w-ho died at her 

 summer home at Swampscott, Mass., on July 10, was the wife 

 of Isaac W. Chick, whom she married October 31, 1877. Mrs. 

 Chick was a daughter of the late James W. Converse, long 

 associated with the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., of which his 

 brother, the late Elisha S. Converse, was the active manager for 

 a half century. Mrs. Chick was a sister of Costello Coolidge 

 Converse, now vice-president of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 

 The interment was at Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, on July 13. 

 A son and a daughter survive. 



George C. Smith 



